Martin Rundkvist

My music randomiser served up "When The Stars Go Blue", and I wondered idly, what's Ryan Adams been up to lately?

He released his 33rd studio album last year.

#music

The #LLM epidemic is not just a financial bubble. It's a mass psychosis as to the capability of the technology, quite apart from the financial aspects.

#aibubble #ai

The last time he did this was 17 years ago when we both had small children, and he became interested in my blog entry about the "blow up a balloon with your nostril" treatment for congested Eustachian tubes in kids.

https://aardvarchaeology.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/nose-balloon/

#parenting #health

Pancakes cooking on my gas hob. An old and very blackened iron skillet on my stainless steel hob (which has my sink integrated into because of space) with, in the skillet, a creamy pancake with golden toasted mottling.

Well, Shrove Tuesday was three weeks ago, but my hens have just started laying again so it's #PancakeTuesday here!

Today's afternoon snack: Yunnan tea and glutinous rice dumplings filled with sugar and sesame seed.

Mark my words, this is how an unsuspecting young Swedish man eventually ends up after leaving a party in 1999 together with a pretty Chinese girl!

#chinese

I know an old jazz musician who lives in Balling, Jutland.

Little Richard has told us that by golly, Miss Molly sure like to ball.

I just wrote to my friend and told him that I believe both Mr. Richard and Miss Molly would enjoy Balling.

Woah, something I learned while traveling in Poland got re-tooted by Cory Doctorow! 😲

This is not intended as any criticism of the woman whose pic the scammer is using. For all I know she has nothing to do with this.

🙄

I wonder if it says more about Mastodon's user base or about my own aged self that every time an account with a profile photo of a young woman follows me, it's a bot.

March Pieces Of My Mind #1

https://aardvarchaeology.wordpress.com/2026/03/10/march-pieces-of-my-mind-1-12/

#blogging

#Goodmorning from hazy, frosty Fisksätra at sunrise. Today: get well from fever, deskwork, nap. And you?

Five weeks after it was published, my volume of Edith Nesbith translations into Swedish is available at 31 public libraries!

http://libris.kb.se/bib/f12g9kn4ckvndtfw

#books #translation #horror #happy

Yay! My friend the Swedish Tom Lehrer invited me over for boardgames, and asked me to find a 4th player. I recruited my friend the Swedish Chris Squire.

#boardgames #music

Here's a random quotation from Robert Anton Wilson's "Cosmic Trigger" (1977).

In his 1976 book The Sirius Mystery, Robert K. G. Temple "... is not aware that NUit and ANUbis, two figures he specifically links with Sirius, are still very much alive among those magical lodges currently working […]

"Eloise, även vindarna kan vända
För mig är du en ända" 🎶 🎵

I practise Epicurean #volunteering. I #volunteer my time, but only for projects that offer community with other people and fun shared activities. There's any number of *much* more important but onerous, embarrassing and boring charity activities I could volunteer for.

#unemployment

Friends of mine have moved to Linköping. There's a huge unkempt two-story rosebush on the front facade of their house. We've arranged for me to come down in two weeks and trim it into shape for them.

#gardening #roses

First tulip spears are poking the tiniest bit out of the new planting bed. It will be an experiment in fallow deer repellent efficacy.

#gardening

And again, Norse people DID NOT CREMATE IN A SHIP ON THE WATER. They hauled the ship onto land first, to avoid the pyre fizzling.

#vikings #archaeology

Cremation on a log pyre is never realistic in movies.

1. It actually takes enormous amounts of firewood.

2. The body is not actually reduced to a white powder by cremation. Indoor crematoria incorporate an industrial grinder for that purpose. The bones mostly just shrink, crack and warp a […]

The online game you toot about whose name ends in -LE is in my mute filter.

Ich lege die Tickets auf den Tisch.
„Manowar. Nächstes Jahr.“

„Ah“, sagt Kryll. „Ein medizinisches Experiment.“

„Wie bitte?“

„So viel Testosteron auf einmal wird normalerweise nur unter Aufsicht verabreicht.“

„Ich halte das aus.“

Kryll schnaubt. „Du wirst nach dem zweiten Refrain anfangen […]

@martinkubler
Ausgezeichnet! Hey Martin, does the red d6 in your handle mean that you enjoy boardgames?

@okynnescoachen.bsky.social
Du är en vis japansk sensei som bor på en bergstopp! 😮

One of the more embarrassing publication decisions my boss at Fornvännen made back in the '10s was for an in my opinion vapid theory paper full of references to French constructivist philosophers.

All of them were to English translations of those works. None of them had any page numbers, just […]

#Goodmorning from Fisksätra. Today: blow nose, shuffle around the house, nap, work slowly on stone axe database.

Tried to read Rishøi's short stories, but they are not for me. I don't enjoy reading about people who feel inadequate and act irrationally or have trouble deciding what to do at all, even if they are skillfully depicted. I get impatient with them, "Oh FFS, pull yourself together".

#books

Vienna reclaims street space by ending free parking and turning parking spots into shade, trees and Dutch-style cycling. The city has run over 350 projects to swap asphalt for green/public space, including a ‘Dutch-inspired’ cycling street where 140 parking bays became 1.3 km of bike lanes and […]

A black and white photo of a woman posting a large banner "free borsht in celebration of Stalin's death" on her restaurant window

5 March 1953 marks the anniversary of death of one of the most bloody tyrants of 20th century, Joseph #Stalin - here’s how #Ukraine emigrants in US celebrated his death: